age of Python programmers

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Thu Aug 19 12:18:02 EDT 2004


Mike Brenner wrote:

> I was born about 10,000 years ago and I used to
> program computers made of human beings who
> were aligned in tiers. The bottom tier counted
> the grains in the baskets. The next tier
> counted the baskets in the barn, then the
> number of brans in each country.
> 
Don't laugh.  I met a woman roughly my age (53 now)
whose mother was a programmer at los Alamos (or was
it Trinity?) -- she programmed rooms of people
running mechanical calculators (calculate this, if
a > b, pass your results right, otherwise, ...)

Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org



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